Field Trip!

My class took a field trip on Friday to the beach. It was a program through the Seattle Aquarium - it's free!! We went to the beach with scientists and they showed the kids all sorts of animal life in the tide pools. Erin was a chaperone for the trip - he did a great job with all of my wild kidos. Here's a picture of some of the kids looking at a moon snail laying eggs:


And here's a picture of one of the many starfish we saw - I had never seen them so big!!


Not much else too exciting. Erin and I start coaching the summer team next week, so my life will get much busier again.

Less than 6 weeks of school now...in some ways it seems hard to believe. Cally (my friend in Florida) only has 2 weeks left!! I've gotten 2 new kids over the past 2 weeks, so even though there is not a lot of school left things are still changing in my classroom.

Erin and I had a fun trip down to Oregon (although I wish Abby and I could have gotten together!!) Meeting his parents seem to go well and we stopped by Mt. Rainier National Park on our way back to Seattle - we got to walk in the snow a little up on the mountain. We also took a short, overnight trip across the bay to Port Orchard a couple weekends ago because Erin had a swim meet over there. It's a nice ferry ride over, so we had a good time.